{"id":1122,"date":"2006-06-05T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T08:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/the_kind_of_story_that_gets_bob_costas_juices_flowing_eww.html"},"modified":"2006-06-05T00:01:01","modified_gmt":"2006-06-05T08:01:01","slug":"the_kind_of_sto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/the_kind_of_sto.html","title":{"rendered":"The Kind Of Story That Gets Bob Costas&#8217; Juices Flowing . . . Eww!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Maier, who as a 12-year-old basically helped the Yankees defeat the Orioles in a critical World Series game and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/where_are_they.html\">is now a college ball player himself<\/a>, may be drafted by the Orioles <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/69565.htm\">in a stunning turn of events<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Once upon an unforgettable, improbable playoff moment at Yankee Stadium, a precocious angel in the outfield bedeviled the visiting team from Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>Now that same team is thinking of drafting said angel &#8212; all grown up and fresh off setting his college&#8217;s single-season hit record.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Maier an Oriole? The very thought makes furious &#8220;Bawlmer&#8221; fans fulminate.<\/p>\n<p>But not Peter Angelos.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t be opposed to drafting Maier,&#8221; the Orioles&#8217; unpredictable owner said yesterday on the eve of Major League Baseball&#8217;s annual first-year player draft.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sure we&#8217;d take him. In fact, I like the idea more and more the more I think about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meier is saying little.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m waiting anxiously for the draft next week,&#8221; he told The Post.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Maier, who as a 12-year-old basically helped the Yankees defeat the Orioles in a critical World Series game and is now a college ball player himself, may be drafted by the Orioles in a stunning turn of events: Once upon an unforgettable, improbable playoff moment at Yankee Stadium, a precocious angel in the outfield [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-tragicomic_ironic_obnoxious_or_absurd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}